Winners announced for National Good Practice Awards 2025
Tenants, tenant groups, and social landlords were recognised last month for their outstanding achievements in tenant participation at TPAS Scotland’s National Good Practice Awards 2025.
The winners were announced at an awards ceremony, hosted by comedian Fred MacAulay, at the Golden Jubilee Hotel on 20 June. In total, 13 prizes were awarded.
The winners were as follows:
The 2025 categories
Good practice in involving tenants to shape and improve services award
Sponsored by Cunninghame Housing Association
This award recognises a social landlord that has successfully involved tenants in shaping or reviewing services. This could include activities such as designing new services, identifying areas for improvement or testing services.
Winner: Wheatley Housing Group
Community involvement award
This award recognises and celebrates the achievements of a tenant or community-led group or project that has supported other individuals or groups within their community and made a positive impact.
Winner: Muirhouse Housing Association
Good practice in widening participation award
This award recognises a social landlord that is actively investing in and supporting tenants and communities. Entries should focus on well-established support and advisory programmes that help residents to overcome challenges and improve their lives as well as create new opportunities.
Winner: Waverly Housing
Youth involvement award
Sponsored by Cairn Housing Association
This award celebrates successful work by a tenant or community group to involve young people and the impact this has had on the local community and the young people themselves. The group can be supported by a social landlord, but the entry should focus on the group’s efforts and achievements.
Winner: Bryony O’Donnell, Falkirk Council
Good practice in communicating with tenants and residents award
This award recognises how effectively a social landlord has communicated with its tenants and residents. This could include a specific communication project to raise awareness or understanding of a particular topical issue, for example, fuel poverty, damp and mould or the cost of living.
Winner: Link Group
Tenant group of the year award
This award recognises a group of tenants who work to ensure tenants’ voices are heard in order to shape housing services and/or influence their landlord’s decisions. This can be a scrutiny group, tenants and residents’ group or even a group of tenants who have come together for a specific purpose.
Runner-up: Scottish Borders Tenants’ Organisation
Winner: West Dunbartonshire Tenants and Residents Organisation
Good practice in involving tenants in a current issue award
This award, a new addition this year to TPAS Scotland’s National Good Practice Awards, recognises how a landlord has involved tenants in an issue that’s either being faced by tenants across Scotland or is specific to their tenants.
Winner: Castlemilk Housing and Human Rights Lived Experience Board
Community environmental award
Sponsored by Wheatley Homes Glasgow
This award recognises a tenant or community group that has successfully engaged tenants/residents in initiatives that benefit the environment. The award also recognises those who are supporting tenants to engage in, and benefit from, environmentally focused initiatives.
Winner: Growing Beardmore Registered Tenant Organisation
Tenant voice award
Sponsored by TPAS Scotland
This award recognises a social landlord that can demonstrate it supports and encourages its tenants to have a voice that is listened to and changes are made as a result. The social landlord should be able to clearly demonstrate the results of listening to, and hearing, their tenants.
Winner: Whiteinch and Scotstoun Housing 
Tenant of the year – Alan Ferguson award
This award recognises a social housing tenant who has made a significant contribution to tenant participation. This could either be as part of their work during specific projects; their role as part of a group, committee or board; or their work in the community as a whole.
Runner-up: Harlay Thana, Blue Triangle
Winner: Liz McKnockiter, Moray Council Tenants’ Forum
